We desire in others what we desire for ourselves: we crave shapely bodies because we want eternal health, we like aggressive lovers because we’d love to be so confident. So we long to rub up against others in hopes that these attributes will rub off on ourselves.

Though ostensibly a film about Brian Epstein’s sexual attraction to John Lennon, and John’s reciprocal interest in Brian’s lifestyle,...

Sam Leach was a true rock ‘n’ roll evangelist. A Liverpool visionary with a great big rockin’ heart and towering dreams. A promoter who was way ahead of his many contemporaries—in both scale and daring-do—and who was always seeking bigger and better ways to give beat fans the best in rockin’ entertainment. A man who caught the emerging spirit of the times and did a huge amount to promote the ea...

Essential reading. Very insightful. One of the very best books on The Beatles, their music, and their times.

Gould—an accomplished musician himself—really gets inside the structure of the songs he writes about. And as I've found happens with Ian Macdonald's marvelous A Revolution In The Head, Gould helps unclog...

A |The story of The Beatles is certainly one of the great folk tales of our time—more than worthy of being conceived as a grand opera or great film—so archetypal are the iconic moments and story elements. The innocents on a quest, their hopes and dreams, the un-looked for guide, the worldly-wise teacher, the heroes and villains encountered along the way, a string...